Thanks for this additional information. This sounds a bit like this is a side-effect of bug #67146 ? Locking is currently broken in the synaptic in edgy.
Cheers, Michael -- synaptic 0.58.7 and apt 0.6.45 don't follow pinned packages https://launchpad.net/bugs/67398 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
